HANDSOME FAMILY- Have you Been Washed in The Blood of the Lamb Old School Protestant Hymns are way more hardcore then Ozzy. Look at this one, running into seven minutes of verses, each with the chorus that starts with the line “have you been wa[…]
Rosmary Clooney and Bing Crosby-On a Slow Boat To China Clooney and Crosby talk over each other, interupt, butt in, convince, cajole. it is not the call and response that is normal in vocal jazz. This means you cannot hear all the words and because […]
Patsy Montana- I want to be a Cowboy Sweetheart. It hasn’t been camped up or reclaimed by anybody and not really known as well as it should be, considering it was the first song written by a woman to sell a million copies. Its not ironic and i[…]
Everclear-Soccer Mom The porn girl who “fucked in the bathroom of her highschool prom” and had a three some with her sister and her bf turns into a safe suburban republican “volvo driving soccer mom.” Instead of being upset, […]
Johnny Cash-Hurt Trent Reznor hates, because he is young, and because to be young and hate sells records Cash bleeds the novelty out of it, and resigns himself to an elder statesmans sadness.[…]
I am preparing my testimony for tomorrow’s Campus Crusade for Christ’s meeting, and this came on my head phones, thanks to a comp that I had just refound. Thinking when this was made, in the time when Lou Reed was all about trannies, he[…]
One Line Dismissals of Country Videos, Part One Drive-Alan Jackson Daddy songs, no matter how hackish, make me lose all critical skills, and Country has too many of them. Dean Tuftin-I’m not so little A bully comeuppance story, Alabama-I̵[…]
When I heard Stephen Patrick Morrissey in high school he was the boy I always wanted. Fey, elegant, prone to word play, sensitive and maybe even homosexual. His stories were autobiographical in a way that could be constructed to comfort me. I wanted[…]
JOAN JETT-“Crimson and Clover” You know the kind of boy (or girl) that you refuse to think about, cause all of the blood is caught between your heart and your loins ? this is the song for that. Hearing her sing Crimson and Clover over and[…]
DIXIE CHICKS-“Travelling Soilder” MASH was about Vietnam, not Korea. Despite the lyrics this song is not about Vietnam, its about the new war, the tenuous war that has happened and hasn’t happened at the same time, the problem is t[…]